Elgin milestone

Community celebrates progress of K-12 building

6:14 AM,
Oct. 13, 2012

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Written by

Kurt Moore
The Marion Star

MARION - Elgin Local Schools students, staff and supporters celebrated a milestone in the construction of a new K-12th grade building at a topping off ceremony Friday.

The ceremony celebrated the completion of the steelwork making up the frame of the building. Ironworkers raised the final two steel beams, one placed above the entrance to the junior/senior high school section and the other above the entrance to the elementary section.

"This is major for the folks at Elgin," architect Jim Moll, operations manager at Fanning Howey Associates Inc., said. "A district like this sees an ...